French brand Look has enjoyed a reputation for innovation throughout its 30-year history – as well as being very much a premium brand (as seen with the highly anticipated new 796 Time Trial superbike, which broke cover briefly at the Tour).
So it’s a big surprise that Look has debuted a new model, the 765, where the big story is that it will start at just £1799 (about $2,806 / AU$3,840), rising to £2299 – international pricing was TBC at the time of writing. Contained within the classy new frame, however, is some interesting tech.
It's all down to the use of flax fibres. Some of you may say that you’ve seen this before – years ago – in Johan Museeuw’s eponymous bikes.
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Look’s engineers, however, researched the use of flax-fibre in other carbon applications – it’s used in aeronautics (for carbon cockpits in fighter jets to reduce fatigue-inducing vibrations) motorsport and sailing.
The dedicated sub 300g fork is infused with flax fibres to aid vibration damping
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